Coimbatore Corporation ramps up SWM efforts

Coimbatore Corporation will soon commission five more micro compost centres (MCCs) to strengthen solid waste management in the city. The Corporation will start using the compost centres in Kavundampalayam dump yard, MGR wholesale vegetable market, Bharathi Park Road and two more, to take the total number of compost centres in use to eight, reports The Hindu.

The Corporation has planned 69 MCCs across the city to decentralise waste collection but there have been delays in construction. Now, the civic chief has instructed engineers to ensure the MCCs are ready soon.

With the Swacch Survekshan 2021 barely three months away, the Coimbatore civic body has also planned to buy more push carts, take early delivery of the small vehicles used for door-to-door collection and train conservancy workers on the importance of segregated waste collection and how they could effectively enforce segregated collection from households.

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